It's been so long since this year's MLA ended that you might wonder why I'm going to the trouble of posting my second talk. Hasn't the moment passed? Does anyone care about what I said two months ago, even if you weren't there? And considering the arguments that I make in this talk about social … Continue reading Three Reasons to Use Social Media in Hard Times (MLA 2011 Version)
Like many others, I'm going to be participating in this year's Day of Digital Humanities. It's my first year doing so since last year's Day coincided with a campus interview and it just didn't seem kosher to write about what I was doing even though it was a digital humanities job. The Day of DH … Continue reading Defining “Digital Humanities”
Here is information that you will need to copy and paste for the THATCamp Southeast BootCamp session on "Visualizing Time and Space with Simile Widgets and Google." <script src="http://api.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/2.2.0/exhibit-api.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="http://api.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/2.2.0/extensions/time/time-extension.js"></script> <link rel="exhibit/data" type="application/jsonp" href="XXX?alt=json-in-script" ex:converter="googleSpreadsheets" /> <div ex:role="facet" ex:facetClass="TextSearch" ex:facetLabel="Search"></div> <div ex:role="facet" ex:expression=".eventType" ex:facetLabel="Event Type"></div> <div ex:role="view" ex:viewClass="Map" ex:label="Map" ex:latlng=".event_latlng" ex:center="37.160317,-96.943359" ex:zoom="4" ex:colorKey=".eventRegion"> … Continue reading Code for BootCamp Southeast
I can't believe that we're less than a week away from the beginning of THATCamp Southeast. In what shouldn't be an all-too-surprising discovery, I'm learning that an unconference takes a lot more organizing than one would have thought. In any case, I recently posted my session idea for the Camp, and I wanted to cross-post … Continue reading Session idea for THATCamp Southeast
One of the first things that I saw this morning was a tweet from Andrew Hazlett pointing to a Washington Post article by Philip Kennicott about the new Google Art Project. Art Project takes a "street view" approach to 17 art museums, allowing you to walk through some of their galleries and see the works … Continue reading Mechanical Resolution: Benjamin, Google Art Project, and the Digital Humanities